Agassiz. The Structure of Animal Life Six Lectures delivered at the Brooklyn Academy ot Music, in January and Feb ruary, 1862. By Louis Agassiz, Professor of Zoology and Geology in the Lawrence Scientific school. 128 pp., Bvo. This volume is the fourth of the series, resulting from the Brooklyn Graham Lec tures, founded for the purpose of exhibit ing, by the ablest scientific men whose services could be commanded, the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as illustrated in his works. Professor Agassiz took the Animal Kingdom as his field of illustra tion, and in his own unrivalled, way, de monstrated a Divine unity of plan amid all its wide diversities. He shows that “ the plan has been preconceived, has been laid out in the course of time, and executed with the definite object of introducing man upon the earth.” Those who would com prehend the extraordinary degree to which ' the generalizations of science in these fields which so long defied all efforts at a true syn thetic process have gone, should read these lectures. Many of the questions'mooted by unbelieving students in this sphere are satis factorily handled by the Swiss-American savant, whose position, if not altogether what we could wish, is far above those who pursue such studies in a spirit of positive hostility to revelation. The externals of the volume are very handsome. McDonald. Spiritualism identical with Ancient Sorcery, New Testament Demon logy, and Modern Witchcraft; with the Testimony of God and Man against it. JJy W. McDonald. New York: Carlton & Porter. 16m0., pp. 212. For sale by Per kenpine & Higgins. In this treatise, the author, beginning with the performances of the Fox girls in Rochester, gives a view of the leading in stances of like anomalous phenomena in our own and other countries, and endeavors to connect them with the demonology of Soripture and the witchcraft of later times- He believes in the reality and spiritual origin of the manifestations, but asoribes them to the devil. Valuable testi mony as'to the monstrous doctrines, and debasing and loathsome principles and practices of the modern spiritualists is quot ted from prominent persons who are, or have been, mediums. The author is a Methodist clergyman. PERIOIIH'AI.S AND PAMPHIETB. Littell’s Living Age. —No. 1133, February 11, 1866. Contents: Penin sula of Sinai, Notes of Travel therein; The Pastor’s Widow; Is the Cattle Plague Small-Pox?; Spirituality with, out God ; Harem Life in Egypt; Poeti cal Selections—Poems of the Inner Life; American Sympathies; Lucky Friends; Curzon’s Monasteries of the Le vant ; Livingston’s Zambesi and its Tri butaries; New Poetry (Wife’s Litany, etc.) ; Poetry: Snowballing. Boston : Littell, Son & Co. The Cotemporary Be view. The firs! number of this new trans-Atlantic monthly, for February, has just appeared. It is published simultaneously in London and New York, by A. Strahan, Messrs Smith, English & Co being the agents in Phila delphia. The editorial control is in the hands of the Dean of Canterbury, (Alford,) well known for his genial, scholarly, and devout appreciation of* Christian truth, and for his researches on the field of Biblical criticism and exegesis. The contents of this number are of the highest scientific character, as well as adapted to the religious necessities and questions of the day. They embrace articles on Bitualism and Ecclesi astical Law; The Philosophy of the Con ditioned Sir Wm. Hamilton and John Stuart Mill; Modern Greece; Thoughts on Christian Art; Education and School; J)r. Pusey on Daniel; Indian Questions; Sunday ; Notices of Books. The article on Sunday argues the ques tion merely on grounds of Christian expe diency, and is against the binding force of the Fourth Commandment. This is equiva lent to giving up the day for all practical The externals of this new claimant for the favors of the theological public are positively luxurious. It contains 180 large Bvo pages of the most valuable matter, and is cheap at 81, or $lO per annum. The Atlantic Monthly for March contains its usual choice miscellany. The list covers fifteen articles, including five continuations, besides Literary Notices. Price $4 per annum. Ticknor & Fields, Boston. Oxm Young Eolics for February. A per feet fascination with nur“ young folks/’ who waitfor its coming with uncommon eagerness, and devour its contents with enviable relish, reminding us of our enjoyment of those good things for juveniles which were just beginning to come from Boston in our young days. Price $2, richly illustrated. Forty-ninth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society,, with the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Board of Directors, January 16,1366. Helpful Hints for the Sunday school Teacher. New York: Carlton & Porter. Memorial of Gerard Halleok. Letter to Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D. By Rev. J. Halsted Carroll. "Water Department. Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Water Depart ment of the city of Philadelphia, and plan of supplying the city with water by aqueduct from the Perkiomen. Presented to Coun cils, February 15, 1866. American —There is a bill before the House to reduce the duty on imported paper from 20 to 8 per cent., ad valorem. lt is asserted, and no doubt with truth, that, including licenses and income tax, the printed book with its constituent mate rials pays from twelve to fifteen distinct taxes before it reaches the reader. —-The literary items. historical geography ..I’ Sjria and Pales tine, contained in Carl Utter s world renowned “ Erdkundc, « being translated bv an American scholai, Mr. \\ . L. Ga r e, w ho was an attendant of Kilter s course of lectures at the University of Berlin, and is already favorably known by versions of two of bis minor works published by Messrs. Gould, Lincoln & Co., and Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co. Some condensation will be used in Mr. Gage’s translation of the Palestine, but this will be more than com pensated by the additions of the who will add to the work the latest result* of recent explorations among the sites or sacred history, now proceeding with much energy, from various sources. Mr. .Gage b familiarity with continental literature and the geographers of Germany, as Kiepert, Petermann, etc., will give him great facili ties tor this task and enable him to bring forward much matter entirely new to Eng lish readers. The work will form four handsome volumes in octavo, and will be accompanied by maps drawn for the work by A. Keith Johnston. Mr. Gage has also in view, at no distant date, the publi cation of a life of Carl Ritter, with extracts from his correspondence, etc.; and, in fact, seems to have dedicated himselt to the task of extending the fame of one of the great men who create a science and impress themselves ineffaceably on their age The work is to be issued by Messrs. T. & E- Clark, of Edinboro’. — The Nation. FOREIGN. —The Oxford University Press is publishing the works of Wicliff, the great English Reformer, from whose torch the Bohemian Reformers, Huss and Jerome, lit their fires. Investigations made for the above purpose show that the number of Wicliff’s writings still exfant, after weed ing from the list spurious and wrongly attributed books, is ninety-six in Latin and sixty-five in English. The most important manuscripts of these treatises are spread abroad over Europe. The most valuable and interesting collection of them is in the Imperial Library at Vienna. Two libraries at Prague, in Bohemia, also contain rich materials, as well as the Imperial Library at Paris, and several of the university and cathedral libraries, in England, so that the editorial function in the case of Wicliff must be anything rather than a sedentary one. Prof. Masson, high authority on all matters relating to Milton, says that he' considers the picture of “ Milton dictating to his Daughters,” who sit “ rapt and rev erential,” pure fantasy, and asserts that they pawned his books, wished him dead, and conducted themselves generally in the most uncomfortable manner possible.— — Mr. Murray has just published an elegant volume, with illustrations from the antique, “ The Agamemnon of iEschylus and Bac channals of Euripides,” with passages from the lyric and later poets of Greece, trans lated by Henry Hart Milman, D.D., Dean of St. Paul’s. The recurrence to former pursuits after so long an interval of severer studies, and at the advanced age of seventy five years, is an interesting example of literary activity of mind and the persistence of early tastes through changes of time and object. A help to students of etymology and philology, in any European language; of great value is furnished by the new “ Sanserit-English Dictionary” of Dr. Theo dore Benfey, just published by Messrs. Longman & Co., in an octavo of 1200 pages, at the moderate price of -£2 12s. 6d. It contains references to the best editions of Sanscrit authors, also etymologies and com parisons of cognate words, chiefly in Greek, Latin, Gothic, and Anglo-Saxon. “ Em blem, Books.” —Proposals have been issued for a new photo-lithographic impression of the first English book of emblems, a rare and curious work written by Geoffrey Whitney, a native of Cheshire, and printed by Christopher Plan tin, at Leyden, in 1586. It is entitled “A Choice ot Emblems and other Devices,” and contains two hundred and forty-seven emblematic engravings and devices on wood accompanied by quaint old verses. As there are descendants of the old emblem-collector in America, their aid is solicited in giving completeness to the work. C. Scribner & Co., 124 Grand St., N- Y., will act as agents of the parties. The number of copies printed, on tinted paper, the exact size of the original edition, is four hundred and fifty, at twenty-five shillings eaoh, the price of which will be raised after publication to £2 25., and fifty copies of a larger size in demi-quarto) all of the latter have been subscribed for. A general history ot emblem books and the literature of the subject will be given, in cluding a bibliography of all the English works of the kind, essays by the editor on their relations to our early literature, “Shakespeare’s references to emblemibooks,” etc., eto., illustrated with plates from the various earlier emblems, and every informa tion requisite to form a complete work on an important and curious branch of artistic and ethical enquiry. Macaulay’s Mar ginal Criticisms. —An early volume of “ Macmillan’s Magazine” contained an ela borate critical estimate of Warburton’s “ Divine Legation of Moses,” copied from the fly-leaves of a volume read by Macaulay for the first time, in India, and which was sold at the disposal of a portion of his library shortly after his decease. It was found, when too late to recover them, that many other of the books sacrificed at the same time were enriched in a similar man ner with annotations; but as Macaulay, like most people who really use their books, was comparatively indifferent to their appear ance and condition, a large part of his col lection presented a very poor appearance to the eyes of a bibliomaniac, and thus, with out examination, was sapiently consigned to the auctioneer and irreparably scattered. • RECIPE FOR A. CHEAP PAINT, Eleven pounds of dry lime, sifted fine, 1 gallon of water, 2 do. of linseed oil —raw or boiled ; one-fourth lb. of potash dissolvf d in a pint of water, which can easiest be done by heating in a kettle over the fire. First, mix your lime and water, which will appear_muoh like thick hasty pudding} then add your oil and potash water. Mix thoroughly, and if the oil and water unite, it is ready for use*; if not, a little more pot ash water must be added to cut the oil. Use no more potash than is necessary for this purpose. Put on with a paint brush, as other paint. It will appear much thicker than ordinary oil paint, but.it will ] a y eaS y in this condition. The writer of this has ms AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1866. painted for twenty years, and for the last three years has used this preparatioi on first-class houses, and but few persons can see any deficiency in it. It wears well, and costs less than half as much as all oil paint. AGRICULTURE IN ITALY, \ The regularly irrigated lands in the Italian Kingdom already amount to not less than 3,850,000 acres, or more than) 5200 square miles. The Canal Cavour, now very near completion, will add 250,000jsquare miles to this quantity, and numerous other canals for the same purpose are in eourae of construction, or, at least, project i with prospect of success. It is comput A that in Lombardy, a proper supply of t iter in creases the annual product of 1 ids by about twenty dollars per acre at th< present prices of agricultural growths. 1 lere are fe_w crops which are not irrigated ’ hen the means are at hand, and even chest ut, wal nut, and forest trees are not unfi pently watered, with manifest advantage. In the Alps, irrigation is carried up tome very foot of the glaciers, and on thejpdutheru slope of those mountains water! applied to meadows which lie further prthward than the city of Montreal, and hlher than the highest peak of the White fountains. In Italian husbandry generally water is almost as necessary as solar heato profit-, able agriculture. The stimuli ofjoecessity and of profit are encouraging gkt efforts for the extension of the systemlf irriga tion, and in all probability the iy is not very far distant when the currenlif every spring and brook and river inftaly will have been at least once utilized irriga tion, for hydraulic machinery, ofiir navi gation. 4 I A very considerable portion! )f the Italian peninsula and islands being overed by barren mountains, and much olfie low lands unhealthy as to beliarcely inhabitable, the, amount of land wjbh can be made to produce food for ma br for domestic animals, or vegetable gr|xhs re quired for other human use, is ijatively small, and the twenty-two ’ souls that compose the population mu; draw their .nourishment from an extent < terri tory which seems insignificant to ey fami liar with the vast expansion of ,ir own arable soil. Hence, while the wageof the farm-laborer are low, probably nemuch exceeding, on the average, a frariia day, without board, the price of landf- high, and it is only under exceptional|circum stances that he who inherits no paimony can hope to own the smallest portioof the soil he tills. The landed propniors of Italy, like those of France, are tenfous of their acres, and sales of real elte are much less common in those count: 3 than in our own, where lands and hou 3 pass from hand to hand almost as re ily as personal property. So rare are tra :ers of land in Italy, in fact, that a stran r can gather from his own observation, • from personal inquiry, very little informion as to the current market value of realstate. The report under consideration attepts to give from local returns the averagjprices of meadow or-arable ground, andyitpany cases, of woods, vineyards, beathsand marshes in each province. The. raje of discrepancy in price between dry an|rri gable land is very great; for while inline situations pastures or meadows wibut water are not worth more than tweqor ten dollars an acre, there are irrigated Ids which command not less than six hunted dollars an acre. Ido not refer to mafet garden grounds in the vicinity of lie towns, or vineyards planted with favqp growths, which are sold at fancy prices, It to lands devoted to ordinary cultivate Besides original character of soil and cl venience to high roads and markets, 4 value of irrigated lands is much affecn by the quality and usual temperature of ti water supplied to them. A warm rivula which brings down and deposits vegetabl slime or enriching mineral substances, ma double or even decuple the price of thl land it waters, while cold glacier streams charged with silicious sediment, add verl little to the price of soil over which the] are conducted. So far as the writer of thil notice can judge from the returns befori him and from a good deal of inquiry, he thinks that lands of the same relative value as those which compose the bulk of New! England and New York farming grounds are worth in Italy from seventy-five to two hundred and fifty dollars an acre. Marshes! often have but a nominal value, but where they are' suited for producing the basket willow, canes, certian species of.. reeds, rushes, and other aquatic or semi-aquatic plants, they sometimes sell as high hs good arable soil. — G. P. M. in the Nation. jluml Jamming \ UNDERDRAINING SWAMPS. Mr. Wm. Renick, who proteges to haVf had experience in underdrawing swamf/J writes to the Ohio Farmer, that his unde drains have worked well for ten or twel l years. He writes: ; . j “ Dig a diteh fromjtwo and a Saif to threl and a half feet deep,jas the case may be, at narrow as can well be done with a common spade. Then when this is djne, Igo back! to the startiDg-point and die eight inches] deeper, with a spade made fa the purpose, with the blade but four itches wide, the increased depth being in tfe middle of the original, leaves a should/* on each side on which I lay good wh lf oak inch plank, eight or ten inches \pkj and then fill up. This is all very simpmfbut they are far the most effectual ditcWl ever had dug. I have tried tile in Brth land, but I would not pay ten centf'pe/rod for any more of that kind of diphiof m that kind of land > Neither will mole filching answer in tbjs part of the counth the muskrats so|n destroy it. j , , , fa “In laying dow th e plank, 1 commene at the head ofthpeh, so that the undf lap of the plank/y be down stream. Te plank will not £ during at eration, mouth of the ditc, and if they sbj d , th e water has made s w #continue to run. I hae C ? U .. j- j .overed ditches made mce J® ago, with old rails b an tn hp. ' n the fence, and the watr rotten to be* them to d^ continue r . ls donb ,i ess were gone lot aoo a P erce P inerea sed flf of water from the ditches, or the most of them, since they were 'first dug, and the ground is drying further and further from them each year. Some years ago I tried to drain two very similarly situated pieces of ground, one with tile and the other with plank alone; the latter is now a fine blue grass sod where wild grass only grew before. The tile ditching has done but little good, only drying the ground but a few feet on each side, although I thought at the time that the tile-ditch ground would be the easiest drainff there was some fall, the other had no Tall—indeed, the fall was the other way, and we had to create a fall by depth of ditch. POOR ECONOMY. In drawing a large stone, a farmer broke his “ evener,” or large whiffletree. Having no auger to bore the holes in a new one— which he could have readily extemporized from his wood pile —he must needs go to the shop several miles away to repair the loss. The harrow-wood splits and a tooth loosens No bit or gimlet to‘ bore a hole for an old rivet which could readily be found. So half a day must be spent to go to a shop, or a neighbor’s, or else the harrow must be left to do its imperfect work. A reach in the wagon gets broken in the hurry of drawing in hay. Again, no shave or auger to repair the damage. The gath ering in of hay is delayed, and its exposure to the coming storm the result. A hinge on the. kitchen door gets loose —no screw driver to tighten it —the door binds on the threshold and is violently wrenched from its position. A strap in the harness gives out; —the splicing of a rein rips—no awl to mend—and cannot spend time to go three ■ miles to a shop—horses run away—hurt the driver, hurt themselves, and smash up the wagon. 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SILAS TaK,KEi rj,o(5 MA g CRAVEN, President, ALFRED S. GILLETT. V. President and Treasurer. JAMES B. ALVORD, Seeretar*. 1028-lj fftla juWtatiaus.' mSlMli fUll ton. 1334 Chestut Street, OPPOSITE THE MINT. SOCIAL HYMN AND TUNE BOOK: THE LECTURE ROOM, PRAYER-MEETING, FAMILY CIRCLE, AND MISSION CHURCH, 012 PAGES. 16 MO. This book.haa already run through two editions, numbering 5000 copies. Another edition of 2500 is being rapidly exhausted. Considering the brief time since its first issue, it^success is striking. It supplies a felt want in almost all our churches. In the larger city churches, it is hailed as just the for the lec ture room, and in the village and country churches, particularly in the pioneer churches in the West, it is .welcomed as admirably aadpted for congregational use. Its specific arrangement for use with our Church Psalmist makes it still more sought after. Among the Churches that have already introduced it are the following:— Mercer Street Church, New York City, Rev. Dr. Booth. Clinton Street Church, Philadelphia, N Rev. Dr. March. Walnut Street Church, West Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Butler. „ First Church Northern LibertieS&Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Shepherd. Fourth Church, Washington, D. C., Rev. Dr. J. C. Smith. Sixth Church, Washington, D. C., Rev.G. H. Smyth. Central Church, Wilmington, Del., Rev. G. F. Wis well. First Church, Auburn, New York, Rev. Dr. Haw ley. Second Church, Auburn, N. Y., Rev. S. W. Board man. First Church, Harrisburg, Pa., Rev. T. H. Robinson. Second Church, New Albany, Inti., Rev. Dr. Atter bury. Third Church, Indianapolis, Ind., Rev. 5. A. Edson. First Church, West Chester, Pa., Rev. Wm. E. Moore. Calvary Church, Philadelphia, Rev. W. Calkins. Wharton Street Church, Philadelphia, Rev. J. G. Hamner. North Broad Street Church, Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Adams. Second Church, Columbus, Ohio, Rev. Dr. Morris. 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